Microplastics, plastic particles smaller than 5 millimeters, can be found in land, air, and water, and have infiltrated our food chain, resulting in far-reaching health consequences for humans and ...

Ecologists have long understood that biodiversity is paramount to ecosystem stability. Until now, however, most ecological research has focused on a single layer of ecological life at a time—for ...

Climate change and other human-driven (anthropogenic) environmental changes will continue to cause biodiversity loss in the coming decades (Sala et al. 2000), in addition to the high rates of species ...

A small colored fish pokes out its head from a coral. An Acanthemblemaria Blenny pokes out its head from a coral in the waters of Panama. Credit: Tim Treuer Food chains in the coral reefs of the ...